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Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: 'Maybe the problem is you' (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

More akin to Elon insisting the cybertruck is the way of the future, and people just keep buying Rivians and internal combustion vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Especially as there's D, a language that when used in betterC mode, is on-par with C, minus the archaic precompiler, which is replaced with very powerful metaprogramming capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

D didn't catch on for many good reasons... And it never will. Zig has way more momentum (and it better!) as a "better C", and obviously the main draw of Rust is memory safety without GC which D doesn't have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

D has a way for GC free operation, the easiest way is by using it in BetterC mode. The harder way is writing your own runtime without a GC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yes but that isn't memory safe.